Constraining neutron star properties with a new equation of state insensitive approach

Dec 20, 2021
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  • Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 4, 043012
  • Published: Aug 10, 2022
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Abstract: (APS)
Instead of parametrizing the pressure-density relation of a neutron star (NS), one can parametrize its macroscopic properties such as mass (M), radius (R), and dimensionless tidal deformability (Λ) to infer the equation of state (EOS) combining electromagnetic and gravitational wave (GW) observations. We present a new method to parametrize R(M) and Λ(M) relations, which approximates the candidate EOSs with accuracy better than 5% for all masses and spans a broad region of the M-R-Λ plane. Using this method we combine the M-Λ measurement from GW170817 and GW190425, and simultaneous M-R measurement of pulsars PSR J0030+0451 and PSR J0740+6620 to place joint constraints on NS properties. At 90% confidence, we infer R1.4=12.05-0.87+0.98km and Λ1.4=372-150+220 for a 1.4M NS, and R2.08=12.65-1.46+1.36km for a 2.08M NS. Furthermore, we use the inferred values of the maximum mass of a nonrotating NS Mmax=2.52-0.29+0.33M to investigate the nature of the secondary objects in three potential neutron star–black hole merger (NSBH) systems.
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